Binegar railway station was a station on the
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, also known as the S&D, SDJR or S&DJR, was an English railway line connecting Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth (now in south-east Dorset but then in Hampshire), with a branch from Evercreec ...
in the county of
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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. Opened on 20 July 1874, the station consisted of two platforms, with a building on the down platform. There was a substantial goods yard with two sheds and sidings, controlled from a 24 lever
signal box
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. Being the first station north of the line's summit at
Masbury Binegar was also where locomotives used as
banking engines on north-bound trains would drop off and cross the line ready to return south.
The station closed to goods in 1963: passenger services were withdrawn when the SDJR closed on 7 March 1966.
Accident
There were several fatalities in two accidents near this station in the 1880
The site today
The site is now occupied by a large private house.
Further reading
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References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20070518103018/http://www.sdjr.net/locations/binegar.html
Station on navigable O.S. map
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Disused railway stations in Somerset
Former Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1874
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1966
Beeching closures in England
Mendip District